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so for mitt romney, it's 47% and for paul ryan it's 30%. the idea that a large portion of americans are beyond the reach of the kind of politics the republican ticket is offering, it turns out it's both guys on the ticket who believe that. it's not just mitt romney. joining us is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for "the huffington post." thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> this is not new tape tonight. these are not new remarks. they are from november. i have to ask how they came to your attention and whether there's any suggestion from the ryan camp or romney folks that there's any question to its authenticity. >> there's no question. it was at a spectator event last november. it's been online since then, almost nobody has viewed it. it was sent to me and a few other reporters over the weekend along with about 15 or 20 other clips of paul ryan saying things over the past ten years. and i had kind of put it off sunday and monday, and today i just decided i'd listen to a bunch of these clips and here you go. here's pa
so for mitt romney, it's 47% and for paul ryan it's 30%. the idea that a large portion of americans are beyond the reach of the kind of politics the republican ticket is offering, it turns out it's both guys on the ticket who believe that. it's not just mitt romney. joining us is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for "the huffington post." thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> this is not new tape tonight. these are not new remarks. they are from...
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the tape that's made a big impactinst the republin tape of things that paul ryan and mitt romney have be sayinwithin the past year. specificallythey are talking to conservative so two wksgo, dad corn and an grim at "the huffington po" postedeo of romney talking n florida. deriding the 47%f the country at he said did not pay federal come taxes and w were dependent on thenment and victs and who he would never them to takeesponsibfor theilives. >> i'll ner convince 47% of responsibility and carfor their lives. those comments hdescribes his disdain for half the count, thoscomments have had a measurable impact on t in the new pl just released in the st couple hours, peopl sathosremarks fr mr. romney made em feel more negative than positive toward mr. romney by a 22ointar those results match other polling that shows those commts alienated uecided voters. gardless of what you think of the bstance of that statement from did turn thehole republican pundit class ast h every candide in a contested race to distance themselves from the id their party to start campaigng agnst mitt romney, telli v
the tape that's made a big impactinst the republin tape of things that paul ryan and mitt romney have be sayinwithin the past year. specificallythey are talking to conservative so two wksgo, dad corn and an grim at "the huffington po" postedeo of romney talking n florida. deriding the 47%f the country at he said did not pay federal come taxes and w were dependent on thenment and victs and who he would never them to takeesponsibfor theilives. >> i'll ner convince 47% of ...
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barack obama and mitt romney and paul ryan have all seen fit to weigh in on this one football game from monday, on the referees issue. all three men saying that the green bay packers deserve to win that game. the packers got robbed. so even as the packers' agony crossed over into national politics this week, i still have to say that it remains true that the single west political green bay packers moment in history, the best moment of all time in the overlap that exists between the green bay packers and politics is still this moment. >> there are 30 teams, but only one packer organization, and that is the greatest football organization ever in america's history. there are only 187 days before training camp. and 360 days before we go back to miami! whereas the packers are america's real team, and we'll always be winners in the hearts and minds of the people of wisconsin, therefore i, tommy thompson, governor of the great state of wisconsin, do hereby proclaim january 27th, 1998, all over wisconsin, green bay packer day in honor of all of you, the fans! congratulations. thank you. >> tommy
barack obama and mitt romney and paul ryan have all seen fit to weigh in on this one football game from monday, on the referees issue. all three men saying that the green bay packers deserve to win that game. the packers got robbed. so even as the packers' agony crossed over into national politics this week, i still have to say that it remains true that the single west political green bay packers moment in history, the best moment of all time in the overlap that exists between the green bay...
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just about everybody in republican politics, from mitt romney and paul ryan, all the way down to thscott browns of the world called for todd akin to gut of that missouri naac w m ari before the republican convention, but now, apparently, now we know how much time outrage wears off in. now republicans have decided they're over all of their concerns about todd akin. here he is doing a press conference last week with newt gingrich. newt gingrich there showg hi sut toki today republican senator jim demint and former presidential candidate rick santorum threw their support behind todd akin. republican senator roy blunt, remember him? the guy who said todd akin has to get out. he put out a statement today saying that now is supporting todd akin. thstatrepuicar tsbout akin after his comments about some rapes being legitimate last month, they now say they're all in for todd akin as well. even the national republican party's sete campaign committee, the guys who said we're done when they were talking about todd aki apparently they are thinking now of not bnge with him anore. so now we know just h
just about everybody in republican politics, from mitt romney and paul ryan, all the way down to thscott browns of the world called for todd akin to gut of that missouri naac w m ari before the republican convention, but now, apparently, now we know how much time outrage wears off in. now republicans have decided they're over all of their concerns about todd akin. here he is doing a press conference last week with newt gingrich. newt gingrich there showg hi sut toki today republican senator jim...
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when romney picked ryan as vice president, i said my wife, i think romney may have lost the election here. the asonaiat because by picking paul ryan, it opened up that argument of the republican party as extreme and the democrats just pounced on that as you would expect them to do. and the country does not want those extreme ascts of the ghngicican party, those extreme they do realize that's what got us into this trouble both overseas with the war in iraq and also with the economy. and ey are not going for it anymore. the republic no longer believes asd in fieis to help middle to give more money to the rich. so i thought that mitt romney would pivot the middle. he decided not to do that. >> i feel like the country republicans people in the middle and on left want sentially giving a good fight. so we can have a big hashed out discussion about how to fix our problems. i'll be talking more about that later in the show about something that's been left out of the campaign. but i think ev the left is rooting for the republican par to gts the >> because we don't want one party. we want two
when romney picked ryan as vice president, i said my wife, i think romney may have lost the election here. the asonaiat because by picking paul ryan, it opened up that argument of the republican party as extreme and the democrats just pounced on that as you would expect them to do. and the country does not want those extreme ascts of the ghngicican party, those extreme they do realize that's what got us into this trouble both overseas with the war in iraq and also with the economy. and ey are...
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but specifically on that issue, specifically because mitt romney picked paul ryan, there's geographical parts of the country are democts can compete better. >> well, first oall, the fact ckl moeoo theoba is othe polls. many of the races, the battleground states that you showed earlier, are just a few states. we're in more states than the president. so we're basically on our own, texas, california, new york, atri, out m land,asto become a battleground state, because the opportunity might be there for the president. and we expect to win about 20 seats in the states i just named. then we go where the president is, florida, io, colora, iodate that, to take us, oh, i want to go beyond 25, iould like to have 35. but the -- it's a very discreet races, some states rp -- have blue patches that we want to win back thar districts that are held by republicans that were won by president obama and about a third of those were also won by john kerry. and so we think there's real opportunity. now, mind you, peopl didn't say we were going to win theouse in'0 w first made this attempt. yet. it took like a
but specifically on that issue, specifically because mitt romney picked paul ryan, there's geographical parts of the country are democts can compete better. >> well, first oall, the fact ckl moeoo theoba is othe polls. many of the races, the battleground states that you showed earlier, are just a few states. we're in more states than the president. so we're basically on our own, texas, california, new york, atri, out m land,asto become a battleground state, because the opportunity might...
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romney has difficulties but doesn't have any real experience, himsel paul ryan is a domestic guy. he doesn'to a lot of foreign policy stuff. notalki abot,le obofthe hook a little bit because there is this problem of what happens next after the surge is over? you know, what happens with pulling out the troops do we pull them out earlier like bill young is talking about? or do we keep them in longer in that debate is not happening. you know, i don't think either id flyob had rtaroosweror that. and i think that's sort of why we're seeing neither one of them really engaging hard on what's going to happen next in the war. >> the president is talking about the new tower on the new york skyline. that tower is not do. taing about savingfrom enng t war in afghanistan. that war doesn't end until the end of 2014. anybody running against somebody who's taking those positions provided they had the slightest bit of confidence in our own position, it seems like a place to go. but i wonder if you see the romney campaign potentially bringing somebody else on who can ndle it? any sortheyweit suatho
romney has difficulties but doesn't have any real experience, himsel paul ryan is a domestic guy. he doesn'to a lot of foreign policy stuff. notalki abot,le obofthe hook a little bit because there is this problem of what happens next after the surge is over? you know, what happens with pulling out the troops do we pull them out earlier like bill young is talking about? or do we keep them in longer in that debate is not happening. you know, i don't think either id flyob had rtaroosweror that....
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romney, in fact, implied th the sequester that might resu ifecuhas running mate paul ryan voted for, he implied that would hurt suicide prevention programs for veterans even though the v.a. would be exempt from that, so i'm not sure he even understood what it was he w talking about. but at least he tried. at least veterans got mention enitn'keense in policy terms. you do know that defense and veterans are two different -- at some point it shou be possible with 40 days left to say veterans have to be more than just an applause line. right? you n't just get to use em fophope decommissioned battleship you used as a backdrop when you introduced paul ryan inexplicably in front of a battleship, other time when you didn't mention the war. even iyore not willing to at wld btaking over, re veterans are not a hypothetical construct. the way they're treated is not an esoteric consequence of how we feel about them as a naon or how much military spending we have which is how mitt romney described it today. 40s oufrhect with the israeli prime minister drawing an actual redline on a wiley coyote ac
romney, in fact, implied th the sequester that might resu ifecuhas running mate paul ryan voted for, he implied that would hurt suicide prevention programs for veterans even though the v.a. would be exempt from that, so i'm not sure he even understood what it was he w talking about. but at least he tried. at least veterans got mention enitn'keense in policy terms. you do know that defense and veterans are two different -- at some point it shou be possible with 40 days left to say veterans have...